"Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength."

-- Sun Tzu

#Art Quotes #War Quotes #Home Quotes

“Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.”

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“I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.”

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“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.”
“It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.”
“What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.”

Source : Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.35, Manchester University Press
“The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2012). “Fugitives: Escape from Furnace 4”, p.70, Macmillan
“Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.”
“Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.103, Atlantic Monthly Press

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